Allen v. Houn’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2021
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Malony v. Adsit · Michaels v. . Fishel · Fish v. Benson · Riverside Co. v. Townshend · William Weisman Holding Co. v. Miller
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Possession of land is prima facie evidence of title and is sufficient evidence of title as against all persons, but one who can show either a prior possession or a better title * * * and as against a subsequent intruder without right, such prior possession is sufficient evidence of title. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bentley v. Jenne
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.